This document assumes that you want to use MSYS in order to parse the Windows-based makefile and compile with MinGW. If you don't want to bother downloading an IDE, you've come to the right place.

Step 1: Getting MSYS

You can download Code::Blocks from its website here: MinGW - Minimal SYStem. It doesn't matter where you install MSYS, but be sure and add MSYS's /bin/ directory to your $PATH$ environment variables, which you can find in System Properties -> Advanced.

Step 2: Setting up the Compiler

You need the latest version of MinGW from this website. You need the latest stable versions of the following packages...

• mingw-runtime
• mingw32-make
• w32api
• binutils
• gcc
• g++

Download all of them and extract them to C:\mingw. If you're using Windows and don't have an archiver capable of handling tar.gz files, stop living in the stone age and download 7-Zip. If you are compiling ODAMEX for the purpose of debugging, grab gdb as well.

Step 3: Required Libraries

For ODAMEX to successfully compile, you must obtain some libraries for it, which are:

• SDL Development Libraries
• SDL_mixer Development Libraries

Copy the include and lib folders from the archives and paste them into your C:\MinGW directory.

Step 4: Unpack Files

- Untar ALL MinGW files from the archives you just downloaded into a single directory, then right click on My Computer->Properties->Go to Advanced Tab->Environment Variables->System Variables and scroll down till you find the Path variable, click edit and add the following line:

;drive:\mingwdir\bin

drive:\ being the drive you installed mingw to (eg c:\)
mingwdir is self-explanatory (eg mingw\)

NOTE: Include the semi-colon at the start, or else it won't work. NOTE: In your mingw/bin dir, you should see a file named i386-mingw32-msvc-sdl-config, rename this to sdl-config.

Create a Directory for Code

- Create a new dir somewhere, right click inside it and click SVN Checkout, type in svn://odamex.net:2000/ in the url field and click OK, wait until it says Completed in the Action column of the window.

Compile with Makefile

- Open a command prompt and go to your odamex trunk dir and type: make -f Makefile.win all

HINT: To get help on the makefile, type make -f Makefile.win help

Result

- If all steps were followed correctly, Code::Blocks should output a binary into the /Bin dir of your odamex svn folder.